How to format your references using the Acoustics Australia citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Acoustics Australia. For a complete guide how to prepare your manuscript refer to the journal's instructions to authors.

Using reference management software

Typically you don't format your citations and bibliography by hand. The easiest way is to use a reference manager:

Paperpile	The citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNote	Find the style here: output styles overview
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and others	The style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most references management programs.
BibTeX	BibTeX syles are usually part of a LaTeX template. Check the instructions to authors if the publisher offers a LaTeX template for this journal.

Journal articles

Those examples are references to articles in scholarly journals and how they are supposed to appear in your bibliography.

Not all journals organize their published articles in volumes and issues, so these fields are optional. Some electronic journals do not provide a page range, but instead list an article identifier. In a case like this it's safe to use the article identifier instead of the page range.

A journal article with 1 author

Check, E.: National Academies launch grants for interdisciplinary work. Nature. 422, 791 (2003)

A journal article with 2 authors

Cheng, C., Hartwig, J.F.: Rhodium-catalyzed intermolecular C-H silylation of arenes with high steric regiocontrol. Science. 343, 853–857 (2014)

A journal article with 3 authors

Bao, S., Chan, V.T., Merzenich, M.M.: Cortical remodelling induced by activity of ventral tegmental dopamine neurons. Nature. 412, 79–83 (2001)

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Ferrière, L., Koeberl, C., Ivanov, B.A., Reimold, W.U.: Shock metamorphism of Bosumtwi impact crater rocks, shock attenuation, and uplift formation. Science. 322, 1678–1681 (2008)

Books and book chapters

Here are examples of references for authored and edited books as well as book chapters.

An authored book

Coutts, J.: Loft Conversions. Blackwell Publishing Ltd, Oxford (2013)

An edited book

Recchia, L.: Multicriteria Analysis and LCA Techniques: With Applications to Agro-Engineering Problems. Springer, London (2011)

A chapter in an edited book

Arumugam, M., Wang, L., Kulkarni, S.S.: A Case Study on Prototyping Power Management Protocols for Sensor Networks. In: Datta, A.K. and Gradinariu, M. (eds.) Stabilization, Safety, and Security of Distributed Systems: 8th International Symposium, SSS 2006, Dallas, TX, USA, November 17-19, 2006. Proceedings. pp. 50–64. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg (2006)

Web sites

Sometimes references to web sites should appear directly in the text rather than in the bibliography. Refer to the Instructions to authors for Acoustics Australia.

Blog post

Fang, J.: Companion Star Hidden for 21 Years in Supernova’s Glow, https://www.iflscience.com/space/companion-star-hidden-21-years-supernovas-glow/

Reports

This example shows the general structure used for government reports, technical reports, and scientific reports. If you can't locate the report number then it might be better to cite the report as a book. For reports it is usually not individual people that are credited as authors, but a governmental department or agency like "U. S. Food and Drug Administration" or "National Cancer Institute".

Government report

Government Accountability Office: Survey of the Pricing of a NASA Contract with Eldec Corporation. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC (1977)

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Evans, M.D.: A Correlational Analysis of Teacher Observation Scores and Student Achievement, (2014)

News paper articles

Unlike scholarly journals, news papers do not usually have a volume and issue number. Instead, the full date and page number is required for a correct reference.

New York Times article

Glassman, J.K.: The G.O.P. Needs You: Vote Clinton, (2016)

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

This sentence cites one reference [1].
This sentence cites two references [1, 2].
This sentence cites four references [1–4].

About the journal

Full journal title	Acoustics Australia
Abbreviation	Acoust. Aust.
ISSN (print)	0814-6039
ISSN (online)	1839-2571
Scope